The Effect of Spirituality on Mental Health Among Hypertensive Elderly People: A Cross-sectional Community-based Study

Spirituality, religiosity, stress, working from home and gender amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

“…The first three hypotheses have not been explored in the literature and might also institute an abductive approach to theory development and exploration apart from a deductive approach. Concerning H 4 and the relationship between stress and spirituality, our findings reject the hypothesis, and the findings contradict previous literature (Maltby et al, 1999;Sprung et al, 2012;Bickerton et al, 2014;Papathanasiou et al, 2020), and this possibly might be attributed to the lack of connection with the community as praying remains solely an individual element. On the contrary, the H 5 hypothesis is accepted when religiosity attendance and gathering support the negative relationship between stress and religiosity, siding with Pargament (1997) The COVID-19 pandemic support that females are more likely to pray often, thus supporting hypothesis H 6 , which contradicts the research from Maltby et al (1999).…”

“…The first three hypotheses have not been explored in the literature and might also institute an abductive approach to theory development and exploration apart from a deductive approach. Concerning H 4 and the relationship between stress and spirituality, our findings reject the hypothesis, and the findings contradict previous literature (Maltby et al , 1999; Sprung et al , 2012; Bickerton et al , 2014; Papathanasiou et al , 2020), and this possibly might be attributed to the lack of connection with the community as praying remains solely an individual element.…”

Spirituality / religiosity of Elderly Front to Health Care: Scope of Review

“…It appears that spirituality/religiousness scholars have been more concerned with the demands of senility (Ahmad, Khan, & Aslani, 2021;Cozier et al, 2018;Kent et al, 2020;Papathanasiou et al, 2020;Stroope et al, 2020;Vitorino et al, 2018) compared with the characteristics of senescence Strabner et al, 2019), mainly with regard to chronic non-communicable diseases (Bekelman et al, 2010;Coulibaly, 2015;Harvey & Silverman, 2007;Lynch et al, 2012;Mesquita, 2018;Pereira, 2012;Rocha, 2011), to positive aging (Hajinejad et al, 2019;Selman et al, 2018 ;Villani et al, 2019) and finitude (Hirakawa et al, 2019;Koper et al, 2019;Maiko, Johns et al, 2019;Riklikienė et al, 2019), discarding the multidimensionality of human aging.…”

“…The human being develops concepts about facts and phenomena of life, through beliefs built on the sociocultural and religious roots in which they find themselves since birth, guided by the first social relationships (Cozier et al, 2018;Papathanasiou et al, 2020;Villani et al, 2019). These beliefs established by the individual can influence the direction of their decisions taken in face of the certainties and uncertainties of everyday life.…”

Spiritualitas dan Religiusitas Pasien Hipertensi

“…Dengan adanya kepercayaan pada Tuhan akan membuat responden lebih mendekatkan diri kepada tuhannya dengan meningkatkan ibadah sehingga dapat menurunkan perasaan kecemasan,insomnia dan depresi. Sebagaimana penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Papathanasiou et al, (2020) yang mendapatkan bahwa Spiritualitas memiliki dampak positif yang signifikan terhadap kesehatan mental lansia hipertensi. Penderita hipertensi yang memiliki tingkat spiritualitas yang lebih tinggi memiliki tingkat gejala somatik yang lebih rendah yaitu kecemasan dan insomnia, disfungsi sosial dan depresi berat.…”